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Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(BIRDS--EDWARD LEAR.) Two fine watercolors of Australian parrots, Brown's Parakeet (Northern Rosella), and male and female New Holland Parakeet (Cockatiel), after lithographs from Lear's Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae. 445x300 mm and 480x300 mm, respectively; executed in watercolor, gouache, and graphite, heightened with gum arabic, on wove paper; Brown's Parakeet watermarked "JWhatman / Turkey Mill / 1831"; the Cockatiels moderately toned, both with a bit of mat stain at the edges. [England, circa 1831]
